A soil geochemical survey, covering an area of approximately 550 meters by 1000 meters was done in the eastern part of the Ron claim group. The grid location is shown in Figure 4, analyses of soil samples are given in Appendix 5, and copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc values are plotted and contoured on Figures 5 to 9.

Twelve lines of soil geochemistry were run, each trending east-west, and spaced 100 meters apart. Samples were collected, where possible, at 25 meter spacing on lines. A total of 213 soil samples were collected, analyzed and plotted on the contour soil maps. Samples were taken from the B horizon at approximate depths of 10 to 15 cm, placed in Kraft paper bags, dried and shipped to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd at 852 East Hastings Street, Vancouver. Here they were analyzed for 36-element ICP-MS. Copper values ranged from 13 to 1311 ppm with a mean of 86 ppm, lead from 4 to 86.6 ppm with a mean of 54.7 ppm, zinc from 42 to 181 ppm with a mean of 125 ppm, silver from <0.1 to 1.6 ppm with a mean of 0.3 and gold from 0.6 to 1465 ppb with a mean of 4.5 ppb. In addition to the one exceptionally high gold value, six other samples had values greater than 100 ppb Au, ranging from 120 to 911 ppb.

Figure 4: Location of 2008 soil grid; see Figures 5 to 9 for contoured soil geochemical maps

Figure 5: Contoured copper soil map (see Figure 4 for location and Appendix 5 for data).	Figure 6: Contoured gold soil map (see Figure 4 for location and Appendix 5 for data).
Figure 7: Contoured silver soil map (see Figure 4 for location and Appendix 5 for data).	Figure 8: Contoured lead soil map (see Figure 4 for location and Appendix 5 for data).
Figure 9: Contoured zinc soil map (see Figure 4 for location and Appendix 5 for data).